Ramblings from Oz

Friday, April 30, 2010

Straight from a link on Yahoo!, I read the freakin' link at HuffPo, and was in utter disgust over what looks like nothing more than an orgy of law-making in Washington.

Everyone seems to have their pet project in on this new "Immigration Bill," but it's nothing of the sort when other stuff like "climate change" legislation or National ID cards (AKA the subjugated serf stamp) and expanded "defense spending" horseshit finds its way into the written text of more onerous laws.

These stoopid fux in D.C. are all just sure that what we really need in this country are more laws to fix what are generally only perceived problems.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Taxes and banking issues, mostly about having to divulge how much one keeps in foreign assets, helped by the god-damned gummints of the furrin' countries no less, and not typical political shifts, seem to be the reasons.

I'm sure if I had millions (or more) in several different banks around the world, I'd be looking to the Cayman Islands as well, and changing my citizenship too. Switzerland is beautiful, even if they are a bunch of pansy Greeniks who hate the automobile. They've still got guns over there, and, for their citzens anyway, a don't tell policy on your money.

Seriously, there just aren't very many reasons to stay, or even come for citizenship, here now.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

As mentioned over at Tam's (as well as a mud test from a vid at Xavier's), the SA Mil-Spec is a great 1911, if you are in the market for an entry into 1911-type pistols, and don't want to sell vital parts of your anatomy.

The issue brought forth regarding forging versus casting (MIM also) is addressed in the Mil-Spec by using IMBEL sourced frames and slides (at least they are on my vintage). I bought mine about three years ago, and I've been very happy with it. Not that it matters much in the low pressure .45 ACP cartridge, but it is nice knowing that by being rather over-built for the chambering, it'll more than likely keep shooting for 2 or 3 generations before being rendered unservicable, so long as my progeny can keep throwing the odd extractor, barrel link and springs at it.

So, my opinion of the goods hasn't changed since my purchase. I think the steel forgings are pretty good, with the rest of the innards holding up well too, and the finish (parkerized) still looks good, with a few shiny spots from holster wear.

"Our challenge, and I'm very confident we're gonna achieve this, is to make sure we have the ability -- and we did not have this in this crisis. We wanna have the ability to, if these large institutions manage themselves to the edge of failure, that we have the ability to come in, to step in and dismember them safely, without the taxpayer being exposed to any risk of loss. And so that shareholders bear (those costs)."

Well...duh!

I both laughed and cursed Geithner, for his stupidity, as well as his outright temerity that the Gummint must do something to make it happen; he proposed the obvious, to any right-thinking economist, but immediately back-pedaled in true-form government double-speak, by insinuating that more intrusion in the financial sector was needed, not less;

"We're still living with the same system that gave us this crisis, but in some ways, it's worse than that because, again, you know, we had to do extraordinary things, deeply offensive things, to protect the economy from the mistakes that the financial sector made. And we cannot let them live in the future with the expectation that we're gonna step in again and protect them in the future. We can't do that. And so that's why reform is so important."

Again, what he's proposing is MORE government, and by cause, more money to be thrown at it.

Guess whose money it is?

This is endemic of a culture in decline, by the way, so I don't see that we're going to climb out of this pile of shit anytime soon.

Monday, April 12, 2010

I'm too tired to comment on this, but let's just say that I give about a 100:1 odds that if the Dead Elephants can regain even a super majority in both houses, they'll still not repeal, to any significant degree, the travesty that is ObamaCare.

Yes, them, which shouldn't require much wattage to figure out who I mean. They are the ones who've voted for subsidy, a foreign subsidy, and I just don't give a shit if they end up dying over the whole debacle.

Thursday, April 08, 2010

Now ask yourself one question; How much better would you feel if YOU were the guy who was holding little Elian, and instead of that jackbooted thug busting through that door with his MP5 in one hand, and ordering you to drop the kid, you stuck a 1911 right into the bridge of his nose and let him get on with attaining room temperature?

Anyone else getting a clue about this, yet?

I'm not sure Billy agrees with me about the actions I'm proposing, but I'm fairly certain that he's wanting the bullshit to finally come to a god-damned end, and right fucking now wouldn't be too soon.

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Reading that bit made me sick, almost as badly as that poor analogy to capitalism and diabetes. Capitalism, by definition, is a system that seeks to make things more efficient, reduce waste and always move toward balance between supply and demand in any given market.

Culture in decline, even if that bat-shit crazy motherfucker who wrote that bit isn't an American. It's still rot and filth, but like the title of his blog, things used to be fuzzy, now it's just doop...or maybe it's just poop.